So your one experience with your father not working 60 hours weeks means what exactly when talking about teacher hours? Not much. I know a lot of teachers, most

So your one experience with your father not working 60 hours weeks means what exactly when talking about teacher hours? Not much. I know a lot of teachers, most of whom work in very poorly performing urban districts, which are much different than say a well funded suburban district. They work all the time. 7am-10pm. They work weekends. They teach 4-6 classes of 40 kids where 5 students leave and 5 join every 2 weeks and 90% are ESL. Even with "2 months vacation" which also is shortening every year with professional development requirements (not saying those are bad, but it is becoming a myth in a lot of places that teachers get the summer off) it doesn't balance out. Sure there are some teachers that don't need to work all those hours. Some because they are in a good district, some because they are fine doing the minimum, but you just can't make the blanket statement that teachers don't need to work long hours and "it's ok" because of the summers break. It just is not correct.